The testimony “The Minimum Wage Hinders Texas’ Progress” by Vance Ginn, appeared in the blog for the committee
members of the Texas Public Policy Foundation on February 25, 2019. The
author’s immediate audience were the readers of Texas Public Policy Foundation Blog. The author believes that raising the minimum wage can harm people with
low-skill level, and less jobs in the future. The argument of this article is
that giving people a raise can lead people to a bigger disaster in the future.
For example, he says, “As the figure below illustrates, setting a minimum wage
floor above a market wage results in unemployment, especially for low-skilled
workers. It also lowers future job creation and pushes unemployed workers who
would take a wage at less than a minimum wage into long periods of unemployment
and dependency on family or taxpayers.” I disagree with Ginn, because giving a
high raise to people can help more families improve. People work hard for what
they do in their jobs; they work hard to get money and they deserve to get paid
for how hard they work each day. The person who gave the testimony and wrote
the blog is Vance Ginn, Ph.D. Director of the Center for Economic Prosperity.
His achievements indicate that he is credible on economic topics. Mr. Ginn does
not only give evidence about how raising the minimum wage can harm people, he
also gives examples of how instead of giving people a raise we could do
something good with the money to help people more. For example, we could Remove
government barriers to work, or increase skills by improving educational outcomes
through competition among schools. We could also expand investments and job
opportunities by passing a conservative Texas budget that increases government
spending of taxpayers, money by the smallest amount possible.
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